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A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia by Sherryl Woods

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307195 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/307195] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia Author: Sherryl Woods Narrator: Christina Traister Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 25 minutes Release date: November 14, 2017 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Part memoir, part oral history, #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods gives us a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.  Rich in narrative history and local color, A Small Town Love Story: Colonial Beach, Virginia is an homage to the town of Sherryl Woods's summers, a place that stole her heart long ago and provided the basis for the many fictional small towns in her bestselling novels.  True to Woods's signature style of focusing on characters who are at the center of their communities, here she has woven together the stories of the very real people who helped shape this seaside Virginia town. She takes us back to the days of her own family gatherings, artfully capturing the unique essence of Colonial Beach and making us yearn for small-town life.  Woods's own memories frame the true stories she features—from the unique history of Colonial Beach itself to some firsthand accounts of the Oyster Wars that once consumed the community, to the stories of neighborhood merchants who made it a point to know just about every customer by name. From farmers to restauranteurs and hoteliers, from pastors to librarians and military folk, Woods's research and interviews give life to the personalities of a very special place.

Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics by Lawrence O'Donnell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306686 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306686] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics Author: Lawrence O'Donnell Narrator: Lawrence O'Donnell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 18 hours 0 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.55 of Total 22 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 6 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: The New York Times bestseller! 'A thriller-like, propulsive tour through 1968, told by a man who is in love with American politics and who knows how all the dots connect. Brilliant and totally engrossing.' -Rachel Maddow 'Delightful...brings to life the most fascinating election of modern times.' -Walter Isaacson From the celebrated host of MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, an enthralling account of the presidential election that created American politics as we know it today Long before Lawrence O'Donnell was the anchor of his own political talk show, he was a senior adviser to Senator Patrick Moynihan, one of postwar America’s wisest political minds. The 1968 U.S. presidential election—marked by RFK’s assassination, massive upheaval in the Democratic Party, and the first of Richard Nixon’s dirty tricks—was O’Donnell’s own political coming of age. In the decades since, the election has remained one of his abiding fascinations, as it set the tone for so much of what followed in American politics, all the way through to today. Playing with Fire represents his master class in American electioneering, as well as an extraordinary human drama that captures a system, and a country, coming apart at the seams.

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life by Robert Dallek

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306071 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306071] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life Author: Robert Dallek Narrator: Rick Adamson Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 29 hours 47 minutes Release date: November 7, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.14 of Total 7 Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 2 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR “We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” —Nigel Hamilton, Boston Globe “Meticulously researched and authoritative” —Douglas Brinkley, The Washington Post “A workmanlike addition to the literature on Roosevelt.” —David Nasaw, The New York Times “Dallek offers an FDR relevant to our sharply divided nation” —Michael Kazin “Will rank among the standard biographies of its subject” —Publishers Weekly A one-volume biography of Roosevelt by the #1 New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, focusing on his career as an incomparable politician, uniter, and deal maker In an era of such great national divisiveness, there could be no more timely biography of one of our greatest presidents than one that focuses on his unparalleled political ability as a uniter and consensus maker. Robert Dallek’s Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life takes a fresh look at the many compelling questions that have attracted all his biographers: how did a man who came from so privileged a background become the greatest presidential champion of the country’s needy? How did someone who never won recognition for his intellect foster revolutionary changes in the country’s economic and social institutions? How did Roosevelt work such a profound change in the country’s foreign relations?   For FDR, politics was a far more interesting and fulfilling pursuit than the management of family fortunes or the indulgence of personal pleasure, and by the time he became president, he had commanded the love and affection of millions of people. While all Roosevelt’s biographers agree that the onset of polio at the age of thirty-nine endowed him with a much greater sense of humanity, Dallek sees the affliction as an insufficient explanation for his transformation into a masterful politician who would win an unprecedented four presidential terms, initiate landmark reforms that changed the American industrial system, and transform an isolationist country into an international superpower.   Dallek attributes FDR’s success to two remarkable political insights. First, unlike any other president, he understood that effectiveness in the American political system depended on building a national consensus and commanding stable long-term popular support. Second, he made the presidency the central, most influential institution in modern America’s political system. In addressing the country’s international and domestic problems, Roosevelt recognized the vital importance of remaining closely attentive to the full range of public sentiment around policy-making decisions—perhaps FDR’s most enduring lesson in effective leadership.

Fireside Chats by The Speech Resource Company

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306596 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306596] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fireside Chats Series: Part of The Historic Moments in Speech Series Author: The Speech Resource Company Narrator: Various Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 12 hours 22 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: Features Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats that were used to inform and build support for his presidency. From 1933 to 1945, families would gather around their living room radio to listen to the president explain everything from why he was closing banks to declaring war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Produced by the Speech Resource Company and fully narrated by Robert Wikstrom. Bank Crisis, 3/12/33New Deal Program, 5/7/33Recovery Program, 7/24/33 (Summary)*Economic Recovery, 10/22/33Review of the 73rd Congress, 6/28/34Commerce, Business, and Industrial Recovery, 9/30/34Works Relief Program and Social Security Legislation, 4/28/35Drought, “Dust Bowl,” 9/6/36Reorganization of the Judiciary, 3/9/37Calling for a Special Session of Congress, 10/12/37Unemployment Census, 11/14/37Current Economic Conditions, 4/14/38Campaigning for Democrat Party, 6/24/38Escalating War in Europe, 9/3/39National Defense, 5/26/40War Supplies to England, 12/29/40Proclaiming Unlimited National Emergency, 5/27/41Maintaining Freedom of the Seas, 9/11/41Declaration of War with Japan, 12/9/41Progress of the War, 2/23/42National Economic Policy, 4/28/42Inflation, Food Price Stabilization, and the War, 9/7/42Home Front Optimism, 10/12/42Coal Miners’ Strike, 5/2/43Fall of Mussolini and Plans for Peace, 7/28/43War Loan Drives, 9/8/43War Conferences, 12/24/43State of the Union, 1/11/44Fall of Rome, 6/5/44Fifth War Loan Drive, 6/12/44*Chat #3 was not recorded. This track contains a summary of the address.

Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit by Chris Matthews

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306313 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/306313] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Bobby Kennedy: A Raging Spirit Author: Chris Matthews Narrator: Chris Matthews Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 9 minutes Release date: October 31, 2017 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.21 of Total 80 Ratings of Narrator: 4.17 of Total 6 Genres: The Americas Publisher's Summary: In Chris Matthews’s New York Times bestselling portrait of Robert F. Kennedy, “Readers witness the evolution of Kennedy’s soul. Through tragedy after tragedy we find the man humanized” (Associated Press). With his bestselling biography Jack Kennedy, Chris Matthews profiled of one of America’s most beloved Presidents and the patriotic spirit that defined him. Now, with Bobby Kennedy, Matthews provides “insight into [Bobby’s] spirit and what drove him to greatness” (New York Journal of Books) in his gripping, in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at one of the great figures of the American twentieth century. Overlooked by his father, and overshadowed by his war-hero brother, Bobby Kennedy was a perpetual underdog. When he had the chance to become a naval officer like his older brother, Bobby turned it down, choosing instead to join the Navy as a common sailor. It was a life-changing experience that led him to connect with voters from all walks of life: young and old, black and white, rich and poor. They were the people who turned out for him in his 1968 campaign. RFK would prove himself to be the rarest of politicians—both a pragmatist who knew how to get the job done and an unwavering idealist who could inspire millions. Drawing on extensive research and interviews, Matthews pulls back the curtain on the private world of Robert Francis Kennedy. Matthew illuminates the important moments of his life: from his early years and his start in politics, to his crucial role as attorney general in his brother’s administration and, finally, his tragic run for president. This definitive book brings Bobby Kennedy to life like never before.